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Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adlae Labille-Guiard's fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris.With a beautiful rival who's better connected and better trained than she is, Adlade faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil painting gives rise to suspicions that he touches up her work, and her decision to make much-needed money by executing erotic pastels threatens to create as many problems as it solves. Meanwhile, her rival goes from strength to strength, becoming Marie Antoinette's official portraitist and gaining entrance to the elite Acadmie Royale at the same time as Adlade.When at last Adlade earns her own royal appointment and receives a massive commission from a member of the royal family, the timing couldn't be worse: it's 1789, and with the fall of the Bastille her world is
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